russia (federation)

Explores the geography of Russia and the Eurasian Republics, including ecosystems, resources, people, water, and more.

What would it be like to live in Russia? How is Russia's culture unique? Explore the sights, traditions, and daily lives of Russians.

Explores Russia, covering the history, culture, food, and more.

Poetry. This anthology presents a group of writers and a literary phenomenon that has been unknown even to Russian readers for 70 years, obfuscated by historical amnesia. Gennady Gor, Pavel Zaltsman, Dmitry Maksimov, Sergey Rudakov, and Vladimir Sterligov wrote these works in 1942, during the most severe winter of the Nazi Siege of Leningrad (1941-1944). In striking contrast to state-sanctioned, heroic "Blockade" poetry in which the stoic body of the exemplary citizen triumphs over death, the poems gathered here show the Siege individual (blokadnik) as a weak and desperate incarnation of Job. These poets wrote in situ about the famine, disease, madness, cannibalism, and prostitution around themsubjects so tabooed in those most-Soviet times that they would never think of publishing. Moreover, the formal ambition and macabre avant-gardism of this uncanny body of work match its horrific content, giving birth to a "poor" language which alone could reflect the depth of suffering and psychological destruction experienced by victims of that historical disaster.

Provides insight into Russia's future, discussing its economy, government, conflicts and more.

Presents text and illustrations drawn from episodes detailed in the "Mueller report", the official report of Robert S. Mueller III's investigation into President Donald Trump's possible collusion with Russia and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

"[An] expose of the KGB's renaissance, Vladimir Putin's rise to power, and how Russian black cash is subverting the world . . . reveals the untold story of how Vladimir Putin and his entourage of KGB men seized power in Russia and built a new league of oligarchs. Through exclusive interviews with key inside players . . . tells how Putin's people conducted their relentless seizure of private companies, took over the economy, siphoned billions, blurred the lines between organized crime and political powers, shut down opponents, and then used their riches and power to extend influence in the West"--Adapted from dust jacket.

"With the writers of the Golden Age as her guides-Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol, and Turgenev, among others-Sara Wheeler searches for a Russia not in the news, traveling from rinsed northwestern beet fields and the Far Eastern Arctic tundra to the cauldron of nationalities, religions, and languages in the Caucasus. Bypassing major cities as much as possible, she goes instead to the places associated with the country's literary masters"--Jacket flap.

Contains the redacted text of the official report of Robert S. Mueller III's investigation into President Donald Trump's possible collusion with Russia and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Illustrations and text follow the story of a six-room Moscow apartment throughout the twentieth century and the family living there, as their personal upheavals and accomplishments reflect events in Russia and the wider world.